API documentation for awesome, a highly configurable X window manager (version v4.0).
Libraries
awesome | awesome core API |
awful.client | This module documentation has been merged with the client module. |
awful.completion | Completion module. |
awful.ewmh | Implements EWMH requests handling. |
awful.hotkeys_popup | Popup widget which shows current hotkeys and their descriptions. |
awful.hotkeys_popup.keys | Additional hotkeys for awful.hotkeys_widget |
awful.hotkeys_popup.keys.vim | VIM hotkeys for awful.hotkeys_widget |
awful.hotkeys_popup.widget | Popup widget which shows current hotkeys and their descriptions. |
awful.key | Create easily new key objects ignoring certain modifiers. |
awful.keygrabber | Keygrabber Stack |
awful.layout | Layout module for awful |
awful.menu | A menu for awful |
awful.mouse | This module documentation has been merged with the mouse module. |
awful.placement | Algorithms used to place various drawables. |
awful.prompt | Prompt module for awful. |
awful.rules | Apply rules to clients at startup. |
awful.screen | This module documentation has been merged with the screen module. |
awful.spawn | Spawning of programs. |
awful.tag | This module documentation has been merged with the tag module. |
awful.titlebar | Titlebars for awful. |
awful.util | Utility module for awful |
awful.wibox | This module is deprecated and has been renamed awful.wibar |
beautiful | Theme library. |
beautiful.xresources | Library for getting xrdb data. |
dbus | awesome D-Bus API |
gears.color | |
gears.debug | |
gears.geometry | Helper functions used to compute geometries. |
gears.object.properties | An helper module to map userdata __index and __newindex entries to lua classes. |
gears.protected_call | |
gears.shape | Module dedicated to gather common shape painters. |
gears.surface | |
gears.wallpaper | |
keygrabber | awesome keygrabber API |
menubar | Menubar module, which aims to provide a freedesktop menu alternative |
menubar.menu_gen | Menu generation module for menubar |
menubar.utils | Utility module for menubar |
mouse | awesome mouse API. |
mousegrabber | awesome mousegrabber API |
naughty | |
naughty.dbus | DBUS/Notification support Notify |
root | awesome root window API |
selection | awesome selection (clipboard) API |
wibox.hierarchy | Management of widget hierarchies. |
Classes
awful.button | Create easily new buttons objects ignoring certain modifiers. |
awful.tooltip | Tooltip module for awesome objects. |
awful.wibar | Wibox module for awful. |
awful.widget.button | A simple button widget. |
awful.widget.common | |
awful.widget.graph | This module has been moved to wibox.widget.graph |
awful.widget.launcher | |
awful.widget.layoutbox | Layoutbox widget. |
awful.widget.progressbar | This module has been moved to wibox.widget.progressbar |
awful.widget.prompt | |
awful.widget.taglist | Taglist widget module for awful |
awful.widget.tasklist | Tasklist widget module for awful. |
awful.widget.textclock | This widget has moved to wibox.widget.textclock |
awful.widget.watch | Watch widget. |
button | awesome button API
Furthermore to the classes described here, one can also use signals as described in signals. |
client | A process window. |
drawable | awesome drawable API |
gears.cache | |
gears.matrix | An implementation of matrices for describing and working with affine transformations. |
gears.object | The object oriented programming base class used by various Awesome widgets and components. |
gears.timer | Timer objects and functions. |
key | awesome key API
Furthermore to the classes described here, one can also use signals as described in signals. |
menubar.icon_theme | Class module for icon lookup for menubar |
menubar.index_theme | Class module for parsing an index.theme file |
screen | awesome screen API
Screen objects can be added and removed over time. |
signals | Handling of signals. |
tag | awesome tag API
Furthermore to the classes described here, one can also use signals as described in signals. |
wibox | |
wibox.container.arcchart | A circular chart (arc chart). |
wibox.container.background | A container capable of changing the background color, foreground color widget shape. |
wibox.container.constraint | |
wibox.container.margin | |
wibox.container.mirror | |
wibox.container.radialprogressbar | A circular progressbar wrapper. |
wibox.container.rotate | A container rotating the conained widget by 90 degrees. |
wibox.container.scroll | |
wibox.drawable | Handling of drawables. |
wibox.layout.align | |
wibox.layout.constraint | This class has been moved to wibox.container. |
wibox.layout.fixed | |
wibox.layout.flex | |
wibox.layout.margin | This class has been moved to wibox.container.margin |
wibox.layout.mirror | This class has been moved to wibox.container.mirror |
wibox.layout.ratio | A layout filling all the available space. |
wibox.layout.rotate | This class has been moved to wibox.container.rotate |
wibox.layout.scroll | This class has been moved to wibox.container.scroll |
wibox.layout.stack | A stacked layout. |
wibox.widget.background | This class has been moved to wibox.container.background |
wibox.widget.base | |
wibox.widget.checkbox | A boolean display widget. |
wibox.widget.graph | A graph widget. |
wibox.widget.imagebox | |
wibox.widget.keyboardlayout | |
wibox.widget.piechart | Display percentage in a circle. |
wibox.widget.progressbar | A progressbar widget. |
wibox.widget.slider | An interactive mouse based slider widget. |
wibox.widget.systray | |
wibox.widget.textbox | |
wibox.widget.textclock | Text clock widget. |
xproperties | Handling of X properties. |
Documentation
00-authors.md | |
01-readme.md | |
02-contributing.md | |
03-declarative-layout.md | |
04-new-widgets.md | |
05-awesomerc.md | |
06-appearance.md | |
16-using-cairo.md | |
17-porting-tips.md | |
89-NEWS.md | |
90-FAQ.md |